Byte High No Limit covers the relationships between people and technology, from Phone Phreaking to Modern Architecture! The Teletext People mini series is a social history of the blocky medium that once dominated out TV Screens from the 70s to 2012. Many very influential people have been guests, Mort Smith, Steven Rosenburg BBC, Ian Irving, Paul B Davis and Frauke Languth of ARDtext Germany to name a few.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 8 hours 23 minutes
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episode 5: teletext People - Ian Irving Ceefax, 4-Tel Hands up!
Ian Irving was one the medium's first ever recognised artist and is cited as a contemporary of many pixel artists who used the format. Ian tells us his story of working at Ceefax then moving to Intelfax and 4-Tel. Ian also worked on a ground break...
episode 4: teletext People - Graham Lovelace - Ceefax, Teletext LTD
Graham worked at CEEFAX at the beginning of the 1990s and was given the opportunity to run a new teletext service for commercial TV just after the biggest shake up of television regulations in the UK at the time. He explains how he manged to get the ...
episode 3: teletext People - Ian Westbrook BBC Ceefax
Ian shares with us stories of how he became the last editor of Ceefax before is merger with the BBC web based service. Sport was one of the most popular services on Ceefax and there are a few tales of sackings of Football managers and match winners t...
episode 2: teletext People - Steve Rosenberg BBC News
Russia 1991, the Soviet Union is collapsing, A chance meeting with engineers at a Moscow TV tower results in Steve becoming in charge Russia's first teletext services. Steve explains his love for the medium and shares his recollections of running a t...
episode 1: teletext People - Mort Smith Ceefax & Intelfax
In the early 1970s Mort was the first BBC news Sub Editor to work on the new service called CEEFAX. He moved to the USA to start Chicago's Keyfax and then later returned to Blighty to run C4's upstart service 4TEL I was privileged to speak with M...
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episode 2: Byte High No Limit - Mark Parker - The Bearded Ladies
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